Contractor hired for $13.5 million water system but East Orosi residents waiting for state to pull trigger
More than 15 months after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a trio of bills to bring clean drinking water to homes in East Orosi, residents are still waiting for the project to break ground. The 950 residents of the tiny northern Tulare County community got a bit of good news last month when the Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted to hire a contractor, West Valley Construction Company, to build the $13.5 million water system more than a decade in the making. But construction won’t start until the state Water Resources Control Board first issues a Notice to Proceed.
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